Falling drone knocks woman out at Seattle pride parade
SEATTLE -- Police are looking to find the operator of a small drone that fell into a crowd of people watching Seattle's pride parade, knocking one 25-year-old woman unconscious.
The woman was standing on the parade route near 4th Avenue and Madison when the 18-inch-square drone crashed into a building, plummeted to the crowd and struck her on the head, CBS Seattle in Seattle.
The woman's boyfriend caught her as she fell, and an off-duty firefighter was able to help treat the woman until police arrived. According to KOMO, the woman was taken to Virginia Mason Hospital for treatment.
The damaged two-pound drone (estimated to cost $1,200) and photographs of a man who may have been flying the drone were given to the police.
According to the SPD website, the suspect is described as an unshaven white male in his 20s with a "noticeable tattoo of a woman somewhere on his body."